From PC World: Intel said Thursday that the company will lay off about 15 percent of its workforce, layoffs that were forced upon it by unused manufacturing capacity and charges associated with the launch of its AI PCs.

Intel positioned it as part of the “next phase of its multiyear transformation...

From TechCrunch: Meta, which develops one of the biggest foundational open-source large language models, Llama, believes it will need significantly more computing power to train models in the future.

Mark Zuckerberg said on Meta’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that to train Llama 4 the...

From PC Mag: It looks like SpaceX is preparing to roll out a Starlink "family plan" that offers discounted access to satellite internet service.

Starlink.com quietly added a support page entry about the family plan, which the company plans on rolling out on an invite-only basis to select US...

From TechCrunch: Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long term partnership. As part of the deal, Microsoft runs OpenAI’s models across its enterprise and consumer products, and is OpenAI’s exclusive cloud...

From ExtremeTech: Google has shifted gears after being caught flat-footed by OpenAI and Microsoft. The search giant has integrated its Gemini AI into numerous products, but that's not the only Google AI. The company also offers a collection of open-source models, and it's adding some new options...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report.

“While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial...

From Tom's Hardware: AMD still has to introduce its codenamed Strix Halo processor for ultra-high-performance laptops, but we occasionally get confirmations about this APU's monstrous specifications. This week, an unknown blogger posted excerpts allegedly from AMD documents revealing some extra...

From The Verge: In an interview with CNBC, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the July 19th outage caused by a CrowdStrike update cost his company half a billion dollars in five days. Delta canceled more than 5,000 flights that weekend and had blue error screens still visible at airports days after...

From PC Mag: Following last week's update disaster, CrowdStrike shareholders are suing the cybersecurity company over its plummeting stock price.

The Plymouth County Retirement Association, which bought shares in CrowdStrike, filed a securities class-action lawsuit against the Texas-based...

From PC World: On Tuesday July 30, users worldwide experienced disruptions with Microsoft services connected to the company’s Azure cloud platform.

According to initial reports, the outage mainly involved Microsoft 365 products, but eventually problems also surfaced with the Admin Center, Intune...